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GreaseMonkey’s Amazon Magic

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Amazon.com Wake County Library Lookup by Josh Staiger is a GreaseMonkey script developed by Josh Staiger. 

Download version 0.1 of Sept. 10, 2005

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What it does is that it grabs the title and other info from Amazon, and post a stealth request to a Wake Library XMLRPC site to see if they have the book. Then they modify the current Amazon page to add links, etc.

All these are done with GreaseMonkey, a specially formatted Javascript program. Sounds like something like this would be great for CiteULike.

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One Response to “GreaseMonkey’s Amazon Magic”

  1. gary Says:
    October 30th, 2005 at 9:45 pm e

    My quick hack of a version that searches Duke’s Perkins library:
    http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/wp-content/DukeLibISBNLookup.user.js

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